Living Cities

To support Living Cities and the Integration Initiative, a multidisciplinary focus on both neighborhood and system transformation in five cities, including St. Paul and Detroit

Women of Tomorrow: Philadelphia, Detroit, Charlotte, Palm Beach

To support the expansion of this Miami-based mentoring program into four Knight communities: Philadelphia, Detroit, Charlotte and Palm Beach

Roosevelt Hotel Art Installation

To mount an art installation on the abandoned Roosevelt Hotel highlighting the potential held by vacant urban spaces in collaboration with the Hygienic Dress League, the Detroit Civic Intervention and local community activist Philip Cooley

Arab American National Museum

To help the Arab American National Museum (AANM) document the impact and aftermath of 9/11 on Arab Americans in four Michigan cities

Detroit Area Pre-College Engineering Program

To engage 120 African-American male high school students in improving their academic outcomes and in mentoring 240 K-3 students

Detroit International Jazz Festival

To develop an umbrella organization for jazz in southeast Michigan through support of Jazz Planet, an audience development and outreach project

Making the Case: Cultural Census Project

To build awareness of the significant contributions that arts and culture organizations make to the social capital of the region with a long-term, comprehensive Cultural Census project called "Making the Case"

Marygrove College

For planning support of an Urban Leadership Initiative intended to enhance the leadership capabilities of traditionally marginalized students and residents

MiVote.org

To improve public broadcasting's experimental citizen forum, MiVote.org, and extend it beyond the 2010 election to engage citizens in issue coverage

Mosaic Youth Theatre of Detroit

To provide opportunities for young people in Southwest Detroit to showcase their cultural heritage and interact with community members throughout the city with the expansion of a bilingual performance training program for youths

Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit

To feature artists who show exceptional promise in the field and who are interested in democratic and collaborative practices in their art-making through the emerging artist exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD)

Plowshares Theatre Company

To support Plowshares Theatre Company in carrying out its artistic mission of developing new works in African-American theater for a culturally and socially diverse audience